Margo Channing:
I'll admit I may have seen better days, but I'm still not to be had for the price of a cocktail, like a salted peanut.
--Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve
--Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve
Margo Channing:
Lloyd, honey, be a playwright with guts. Write me one about a nice normal woman who just shoots her husband.
--Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve
--Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve
Margo Channing:
Nice speech, Eve. But I wouldn't worry too much about your heart. You can always put that award where your heart ought to be.
--Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve
--Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve
Sara Muller:
When the time comes. When it comes, I will do my best.
--Bette Davis (as Sara Muller) in Watch on the Rhine
--Bette Davis (as Sara Muller) in Watch on the Rhine
Lloyd Richards:
How about calling it a night?
Margo Channing: And you, pose as a playwright? A situation pregnant with possibilities and all you can think of is everybody go to sleep.
--Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve
Margo Channing: And you, pose as a playwright? A situation pregnant with possibilities and all you can think of is everybody go to sleep.
--Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve
Llyod Richards:
You knew when you came in that the audition was over, that Eve was your understudy, playing that childish little game of cat and mouse.
Margo Channing: Not mouse, never mouse. If anything *rat*!
--Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve
Margo Channing: Not mouse, never mouse. If anything *rat*!
--Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve
Bill Sampson:
Have you no human consideration?
Margo Channing: Show me a human, and I might have!
--Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve
Margo Channing: Show me a human, and I might have!
--Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve
Bill Sampson:
I start shooting a week from Monday. Zanuck is impatient. He wants me, he needs me.
Margo Channing: Zanuck, Zanuck, Zanuck. What are you two, lovers?
--Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve
Margo Channing: Zanuck, Zanuck, Zanuck. What are you two, lovers?
--Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve
Bill Sampson:
We have to go to City Hall for the marriage license and blood test.
Margo Channing: I'd marry you if it turned out you had no blood at all.
--Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve
Margo Channing: I'd marry you if it turned out you had no blood at all.
--Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve
Bill Sampson:
We started talking - she wanted to know about Hollywood. She seemed so interested.
Margo Channing: She's a girl of so many interests.
Bill Sampson: Pretty rare quality these days.
Margo Channing: A girl of so many rare qualities.
Bill Sampson: So she seems.
Margo Channing: So you've pointed out so often! So many qualities so often - her loyalty, efficiency, devotion, warmth, and affection, and so young! So young and so fair!
--Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve
Margo Channing: She's a girl of so many interests.
Bill Sampson: Pretty rare quality these days.
Margo Channing: A girl of so many rare qualities.
Bill Sampson: So she seems.
Margo Channing: So you've pointed out so often! So many qualities so often - her loyalty, efficiency, devotion, warmth, and affection, and so young! So young and so fair!
--Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve
